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Political Social Grab Bag
  August 2015
 
 
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What's new to think about?

First I apologize that this newsletter is 2 days late but I was at NOI Digital BootCamp all week last week and staying engaged in the training took priority for me.
This month I found myself thinking a lot about social media tactics. Sometimes it feels like we recycle the same tactics like denial of hashtag over and over yet the social media ecosystem is ever evolving. How do we better harness the creativity we have to innovate the tactics we use while still respecting the limited capacity and resources most organizations have at their ready. I don’t claim to have all the answers on this one but one possible solution that came to me was to start hosting once a month Google Hangouts specifically to gather together and brainstorm together to see if we can find new and exciting ways to spur our communities to action. Interested in participating? Email me or tweet at me and if there are enough of you we can give it a try!

Webinars & Trainings

Webinars: Tues, 8/4 at 1pm ET/10am PT...Facebook Ad Strategy hosted by ActionSprout and Wed 8/5 Facebook Metrics also hosted by ActionSprout- sign up here
Social Media Strategy Fundamentals: Thurs Aug 20-Fri Aug 21...sponsored by New Organizing Institute...sign up here

 
 
What I'm Reading
The most informative or thought-provoking articles of the month (IMHO)
Note: This section just has a few of the articles that stood out this month but for daily links to articles of interest check out the Becker Digital Strategies Facebook Page which I try to keep filled with interesting articles from the world of social media.
Smartphones Are Now The Dominant Driver of Social Media- a good look at the relationship between the use of social media and the size of the screens we use to access it

The Latest: 10 Surprising and Revealing Studies on Social Media- Great snippets from recent research on social media stats

The Difference Between Social Media Sharers and Brand Promoters - An important distinction to understand...Sharers are engaged community members but Brand Promoters are your Champions

Welcome to Jun, the town that ditched bureaucracy to run on Twitter- just read this if you have any interest at all in civic social media

6 Secret Features Available on Facebook Video- a must read if you’re using Facebook native video
 
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Tools
Make yourself look good with the most interesting and promising tools of the month.



 
Banjo
a mobile app content curation tool- just started using it but am finding that it’s surfacing content not being surfaced by other sources I use
 


 
 
Platform Updates
As social media practitioners, one of our biggest challenges is keeping up with changes to the platforms we all use. I’ll try to provide info on the bigger updates to help you keep pace.

Facebook

I don’t hate to say I told you so on this one...users now can tell Facebook which friends AND PAGES to prioritize in their newsfeed- more audience education opportunities- ping me if you’d like to help test some ideas on how to do this w/out being obnoxious about it
When you post Facebook native video you can now target on age and gender in addition to location and language
Floating video!
Add a Link (only on ios for now) lets you search for and add links from within the FB App
New Ad option for Video Ads- the 10 second View
Lots of reports about Facebook testing new things like profiletags, buy button, and auto fill mobile forms,

Twitter

Links on Twitter now auto expand ala Facebook
You can now manage your Twitter ads from the mobile app
Personas are a new way to handle targeting your Twitter ads - the 2 tests I’ve done of these were quite successful but it’s still early
 
 
 
Don't try this at home!

Oh Bobby Jindal

Trendjacking Pluto...more fail than awesome

 
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Winning the Internet:
Once again Team Hillary wins on social media
They just never learn...check out the awesomeness that took place when the Indian mobile phone company Karbonn tried a #whatwomenlove hashtag
 
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One more month of summer...may your August contain a lot of sunshine and Baseball!
Beth
 
 
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